| 单词 | recruiting order |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrecruiting order recruiting order n. Military (now historical) an instruction to enlist people for military service; (also) a notice calling for military recruits. ΚΠ 1708 A. Boyer Hist. Reign Queen Anne: Year the Sixth 328 Which Officers arrived in England about May and June 1707, and soon after had their Recruiting Orders, and have ever since been employ'd in that Service. 1782 A. Dick Diary 14 July in M. A. Forbes Curiosities Sc. Charta Chest (1897) xix. 302 My son Willie in the Guards arrived..with a recruiting order and yesterday went to Glasgow on that business. 1898 Idaho Daily Statesman 29 Apr. 1/4 The recruiting order for mounted riflemen will be published at Boise. 1931 Times 24 Nov. 11/2 Recruiting order modified...‘A unit may, at the discretion of its Association,’ says the letter, ‘recruit in excess of 97 per cent. of its strength on August 1st last.’ 1974 Huntingdon Lib. Q. 37 261 It seems to have been this recruiting order which sent Farquhar's colleague..recruiting to Derbyshire. < as lemmas |
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